From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751760Ab3LLNRR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:17:17 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f51.google.com ([74.125.83.51]:58883 "EHLO mail-ee0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585Ab3LLNRP (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:17:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:17:10 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, sbw@mit.edu, Linux-Arch Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes Message-ID: <20131212131710.GE5806@gmail.com> References: <20131211215850.GA810@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1386799151-2219-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1386799151-2219-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1386799151-2219-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > No SMP architecture currently supporting Linux allows speculative writes, > so this commit updates Documentation/memory-barriers.txt to prohibit > them in Linux core code. It also records restrictions on their use. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney The signoff sequence looks weird here. If this came from Peter originally, did you mean: From: Peter Zijlstra instead of "From: Paul ..." ? Thanks, Ingo